Technical Art Intern
Manchester
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ENGINEERING - GAMES
What We Do
Unreal projects have been leading the pack of real-time entertainment with our constantly growing team of engineering experts. We're always improving on the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.
TECHNICAL ART INTERN
What You'll Do
We are looking for a Technical Artist Intern to join us on the MetaHuman Art team. As part of the Art team, you will interact with our team of experienced artists and engineers as we continue to develop our character technology. You will work with your lead to help support internal projects which will improve the visual fidelity of digital characters in Unreal Engine.
In this role, you will
Help improve MetaHuman materials and textures
Support R&D initiatives centered around digital humans
Build tools to support our art team
Work on profiling and improving performance of MetaHumans across target platforms
What we're looking for
Experience with Unreal Engine 5 using Material Graph and Blueprints
Experience using DCCs such as Substance Designer, Houdini and Maya
Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python
Passionate about creating optimized real-time characters
Self-motivated and excellent communication skills to positively collaborate with our multidisciplinary team
This internship has a flexible start date in 2025. Recruitment will be ongoing until teams find an ideal match. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the posting location for the duration of the internship. For more information about Epic's Early Career Program, visit epicgames.com/earlycareers. This is going to be Epic!